~ vegetables. really.

(Jan 11/09) No really, I do like vegetables. Well, not all of them, to be sure, but definitely there are some veggies that I really enjoy.

One of the best buys I made was a couple of years ago, when one of my girlfriends and I were looking at this great little second hand shop near where I live... and she found a used electric rice cooker/steamer for sale, at the low price of $4. She came running over and put it in my hands.

"Buy this. I already have a steamer."

I looked at her, and looked at the steamer. I'd never had an electric streamer. It was big and round. It would take up a lot of space on my counter.

"If you don't buy it, I will," she informed me.

"Okay," I said, thinking, it's only $4, what can it hurt.

Now that steamer is a vital part of my weekly food regieme. I love it. You put water in the bottom, veggies in the top, plug it in... and voila, it cooks them and turns itself off when the water is gone.

Hence my ability to have healthy steamed veggies everyday. Even green beans.